Insolvency Act 1985

Information and records

24 Provision requiring registrars and other officers of courts having jurisdiction for the purposes of Part ITI of this Act-

(a) to keep books and other records with respect to the exercise of that jurisdiction and of jurisdiction under the [1914 c. 47.] Deeds of Arrangement Act 1914 ; and

(b) to make returns to the Secretary of State of the business of those courts.

25 Provision requiring a creditor or a committee established under section 148 of this Act to be supplied (on payment in prescribed cases of the prescribed fee) with such information and with copies of such documents as may be prescribed.

26 Provision as to the manner in which public examinations under section 137 of this Act and proceedings under section 196 of this Act are to be conducted, as to the circumstances in which records of such examinations and proceedings are to be made available to prescribed persons and as to the costs of such examinations and proceedings.

27 Provision imposing requirements with respect to—

(a) the preparation and keeping by the trustee of a bankrupt's estate, or the supervisor of a composition or scheme approved under Chapter I of Part III of this Act, of prescribed books, accounts and other records ;

(b) the production of those books, accounts and records for inspection by prescribed persons ; and

(c) the auditing of accounts kept by the trustee of a bankrupt's estate or the supervisor of such a composition or scheme.

28 Provision requiring the person who is the supervisor of a composition or scheme approved under Chapter I of Part III of this Act, when it appears to him that the composition or scheme has been fully implemented and that nothing remains to be done by him under the composition or scheme—

(a) to give notice of that fact to persons bound by the composition or scheme ; and

(b) to report to those persons on the carrying out of the functions conferred on the supervisor of the composition or scheme.

29 Provision as to the manner in which the trustee of a bankrupt's estate is to act in relation to the books, papers and other records of the bankrupt, including provision authorising their disposal.